Word Origin & History

shadow O.E. sceadwe, sceaduwe, oblique cases of sceadu (see shade). As a designation of members of an opposition party chosen as counterparts of the government in power, it is recorded from 1906. Shadow of Death (Ps. xxiii:4, etc.) is Gk. skia thanatou, perhaps a mistranslation of a Heb. word for "intense darkness."

Example Sentences for shadowing

He sends Charles to detective offices with advices for the shadowing of these runaways.

At the second corner he halted, for again he could see the men he was shadowing.

Then his story of the shadowing of Leborge was not at all in character.

I fixed up with him to wait for the man who was shadowing me, and I led him down to Whitechapel.

If it's the right Hagan, Merry may find some one else by shadowing him.

I'd like to see you shadowing some foxy second-story worker!

You mean, and you may as well own up to it at once, that you were shadowing me.

"The smell of this tree's detestable," he said, glancing at the shadowing hawthorn.

The little network was taking all the strain out of shadowing.

The dial on the front of the old house was just shadowing four o'clock.